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Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America

Author

Kendi, Ibram X., author.

Title

Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America / Ibram X. Kendi.

Format

Book

Published

New York : Nation Books, [2016]

Description

viii, 582 pages ; 25 cm

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-561) and index.

Contents

• Part I. Cotton Mather. Human hierarchy ; Origins of racist ideas ; Coming to America ; Saving souls, not bodies ; Black hunts ; Great awakening
• Part II. Thomas Jefferson. Enlightenment ; Black exhibits ; Created equal ; Uplift suasion ; Big bottoms ; Colonization
• Part III. William Lloyd Garrison. Gradual equality ; Imbruted or civilized ; Soul ; The impending crisis ; History's emancipator ; Ready for freedom? ; Reconstructing slavery ; Reconstructing blame
• Part IV. W.E.B. Du Bois. Renewing the south ; Southern horrors ; Black Judases ; Great white hopes ; The birth of a nation ; Media suasion ; Old deal ; Freedom brand ; Massive resistance
• Part V. Angela Davis. The act of civil rights ; Black power ; Law and order ; Reagan's drugs ; New Democrats ; New Republicans ; 99.9 percent the same ; The extraordinary Negro
• Epilogue.

Awards

National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016

Subject headings

Racism--United States--History. HISTORY United States General. SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations. Racism History. National Book Award. United States--Race relations. United States Race relations.

Genre heading

Biographies.

ISBN

9781568584638 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 1568584636 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 9781568584645 (ebook)

Standard Identifier

40025968975